Fashion & Retail

The fashion market is characterised by seasons and the growth in product range within one or more collections, sometimes contemporarily.

The widely diffused sales networks require increasingly quicker supplies to satisfy the demand in response to sales and hence maximise income during a given season.

Thanks to a wide range of organisational, management and technological solutions and the possibility of configuring the exact parameters associated with this sector, Click Reply™ WM provides the best solution for any given context and the management control required for a swift operational flow, reducing shipping errors and minimizing stock levels without creating shortages.

Click Reply™ WM responds to industry needs by:

• Efficient management of the whole process of goods reception, warehousing and shipping, providing a quick response to market demand
• Efficient management of the whole process of goods reception, warehousing and shipping, providing a quick response to market demand
• Improving level of service at the same cost
• High operational flexibility
• Integration with the sales network: order management flexibility
• Value added activities (quality control, packing, labelling)
• Increasing efficiency continuously by controlling operational data

Click Reply™ WM for Fashion manages hanging or flat-packed garments, footwear, sportswear and accessories, identifying them through a wide set of characteristics: model, size, colour, type, made-in and season. It supports the management of the processes requested by the Business Line

Inputs

• Reception of material to be warehoused in technical boxes
• Cross Docking-prepack
• Quality control
• Returns management
• Composition of stocking units by counting and sorting manually, by scanner or sorter
• Allocation strategies which can be configured according to the physical and accounting properties of the articles: allocation of specific areas of warehouses for samples, returns, seconds, and packages ready for shipping

Order preparation

• Picking by order, by customer, cluster picking, pick and pack on basis of volume/weight/value thresholds, or material data characteristics (hanging and flat pack)
• Picking by order or mass picking, with hard copy list or using more efficient media (RF, RFID, or voice picking)
• Manual or sorter-automated packing
• Packability criteria (destination, article type, weight, volume)
• Printing of retail labels, customer labels and special packaging

Shipping

• Planning shipping journeys of packages or master packages
• Checking load-up by hand or by scanner
• Document printing: package labels, packing list, invoice​​
• Parcel Freight Services